ASKAP finds its first Fast Radio Burst

May 23, 2017

CSIRO’s Australia Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has found its first ‘fast radio burst’ from space after less than four days of searching. The discovery came so quickly that […]

Mapping the magnetic bridge between our nearest galactic neighbours

May 15, 2017

For the first time, astronomers have detected a magnetic field associated with the Magellanic Bridge, the filament of gas stretching 75,000 light-years between the Milky Way Galaxy’s nearest galactic neighbours: […]